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Daemon Fairless, Kate Harris, Terese Marie Mailhot shortlisted for Edna Staebler Award
The $10,000 award honours writers for a first or second work of creative non-fiction that features a Canadian locale and/or significance.
Daily Deals: Michelle Good’s Five Little Indians, a novel about residential school survivors, to HarperCollins
Daily Deals: HarperCollins picks up Tara Moss’s Billy Walker series; Clifford Jackman’s pirate tale to Random House Canada
Loan Stars: Librarians pick their favourite upcoming October titles
Literary Press Group names new executive director Laura Rock Gaughan
Writer Laura Rock Gaughan has been named executive director of the Literary Press Group, the association of Canadian literary book publishers announced on Sept. 9.

The stories behind The Witness Blanket, a monument to residential school survivors, revealed in new book
The history of The Witness Blanket, Newman’s creative process, and a series of interviews are compiled in a new full-colour book.
Daily Deals: Kerry Clare’s new novel to Doubleday Canada
Daily Deals: Goose Lane Editions to publish Mary Pratt biography; Anansi acquires Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s latest
Atwood’s The Testaments to be developed for the screen by team behind Handmaid’s Tale TV series
The team behind the Ontario-shot television series The Handmaid’s Tale has announced plans to develop Margaret Atwood’s upcoming sequel as well.